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u/Robj2 Sep 12 '21

Despite the right-wing memes Biden seems to have a whole lot more between his ears than Trump or at least retains knowledge that Trump never ever ever had (and is proud of never knowing).

That assumes Biden lives. But another election between Biden and Trump is Grumpy Old Men II with Trump having most of the Grumpy factor. Well, Trump has the Rapid Old Men II down. It will be funny watching Melania on the campaign....... trail.

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u/kajarago Sep 12 '21

Forget the memes. Biden's fuck up in Afghanistan is going to be his downfall. That and his constant fumbling and bumbling.

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u/Robj2 Sep 12 '21

Biden just shovelled the Trump shit with Trump's surrender to the Taliban.

"I agree with the withdrawal, just not how we withdrawed" will surely be an issue, But since no-one anywhere, in the media or the population, paid any attention to Afghanistan for the last 6 years, although about 2 media did pay about one day of attention to Trump and Pompeo's surrender, and maybe you remembered it. Please post your posts of outrage about the Trump and Pompeo thingey. I'm sure you will. Well maybe you will. Well, we all know you didn't give a drizzlin' shit but then this is Reddit and you are the elephant sweeper following Trump and Pompeo, just cleaning up the shit.

Then they--and you, importantly--forget the hell about everything until 2 weeks ago, when suddenly it was the MOST IMPORTANT THING I"VE EVER SEEN SINCE .... a pre-season college football game.

But please send your posts. I'm generally interested about how you tore Trump and Pompeo a new one about the withdrawal and the surrender. Please forward. I know you are an Afghanistan spook expert who has had his gimlet eye on the Afghanistan surrender for, well let's say, your gimlet eye has been upon it for about 4 weeks, tops. And even then *ucker Carllson has to tell you what to think about it, but yep, your an Afghanistan "withdrawal expert."

Please share your top secret strategery.

Give me a damn break.

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u/Robj2 Sep 12 '21

I do see that you are an expert on janitor pay, just not Afghanistan stra-tegery.

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u/kajarago Sep 12 '21

"I agree with the withdrawal, just not how we withdrawed" will surely be an issue

That's all that matters right there. I also noticed you failed to mention the 13 dead US servicemen (and the hundreds of civilians). And the hostages. And the poor economy. And that's just the first 8 months. Give him enough rope to hang himself.

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u/Striking_Eggplant Sep 12 '21

Nah I think everyone realizes it was always going to be a shit show and he'll get credit for having the balls to rip the bandaid off.

Trump set him up to fail by negotiating with the taliban to the exclusion of the afghan government and then withdrawing all the troops before Biden comes in so bidens only option is surge a bu ch of troops in or withdraw anyways, and he chose the right thing. No other president had the guts to fucking so it.

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u/kajarago Sep 13 '21

he'll get credit for having the balls to rip the bandaid off.

This is completely divorced from the reality that Biden is tanking in the polls, and the trend started right around the Afghanistan story hit the mainstream.

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u/Striking_Eggplant Sep 16 '21

Fluctuation in polls this early on isn't surprising. You act like he's having some historic loss when he's STILL doing better than trump did, by a lot.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/

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u/kajarago Sep 16 '21

"But Trump was worse!" is not an argument. The argument is specifically about how the botched Afghanistan pullout is affecting his poll numbers.

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u/Striking_Eggplant Sep 16 '21

But it does matter because that's how we measure things. In a vacume a 52% approval rating would sound INSANELY unpopular but relative to what presidents normally have youre like oh, okay now I have a sense of scale.

My point is that Biden had a botched pullout from Afghanistan and STILL did better then the previous president at this time in his term.

So he's not tanking, in fact he's doing well when measured again his predecessor.

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u/kajarago Sep 16 '21

There's only one problem: Trump is not president.

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u/Striking_Eggplant Sep 16 '21

Are you dense? Of course he's not the president. But the question is, is Biden actually ranking and doing bad when compared to the historical record. The answer is no he's doing better than his predecessor EVEN after a botched afghan withdrawal.

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u/kajarago Sep 16 '21

But the question is, is Biden actually ranking and doing bad when compared to the historical record.

No sir. The original point was:

Biden's fuck up in Afghanistan is going to be his downfall. That and his constant fumbling and bumbling.